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What does lily-livered mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) Cowardly, lacking courage.
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Reagan benefited by being sandwiched between two pols frequently mocked as lily-livered.
It's enough to put the fear of god into a lily-livered greenhorn like myself.
To miss this window of opportunity would be a near-guarantee of a future more lily-livered than lily-white.
At the moment the right wing of the party has asserted its supremacy, which is why lily-livered lefties like me have deserted the Party.
Indeed, any sign of courtesy on our roads is taken as a sign of mental or moral weakness, a failure of the spirit, a lily-livered, chicken-hearted attempt to stay alive.
He gives a sterling performance as the lily-livered auctioneer Mick Flanagan with Shona Heffernan in top form as his embittered, feisty wife Mamie.

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